Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.